What do shifting power dynamics, the rise of global revisionism, and low-boil conflicts mean for national security? What are the gaps between the U.S. perspective and a European one? These questions ...

Neither Switzerland nor the EU are directly threatened by large-scale and prolonged power outages this winter; Ukraine is. The issues surrounding the security of power grids, energy supply, and energy ...

Western states increasingly face attacks that fall into a gray zone between war and peace. The outbreak of a conventional war on European soil has accentuated this trend. In order to describe this ...

Reports and information disclosures by threat intelligence providers, government agencies, think tanks, and online hacktivists have exposed China’s elaborate multifaceted “hack-for-hire” ecosystem ...

This Cyber Defense Report investigates all other cyber operations that have occurred against the space sector during the war in Ukraine (February 2022 – September 2024). The report looks into the ...

Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow understood trust as a “lubricant” that makes social interaction smoother. Trust in government is thus a key resource for the functioning of society. While times of ...

Russia’s continued war of aggression against Ukraine, Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel, Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip, attacks by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, the ongoing tensions over Taiwan ...

Conflicts are growing ever more complex, with increased internationalization, splintering of conflict parties, new technologies, and multilateral institutions such as the UN in crisis. While worldwide ...

This book tries to answer the following seven questions: ...

Nuclear threats have become a regular occurrence since the start of Russia’s fullscale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. President Vladimir Putin, his close associates, and Russian media ...

"Contact Theory" is a robust academic theory showing that contact between groups typically reduces prejudice and improves intergroup relations. Originally developed in the field of social psychology ...

In 2023, the world celebrates the 75th anniversary of UN peacekeeping. It was in the Arab-Israeli war in 1948 that the UN first tested the seemingly outlandish idea of sending soldiers not to wage war ...